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Re "Ozymandias": that should be "subtlety" not "subtly."

Today is Pedantry Day, sorry.

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Re the would-be hilarious "Ceci est une pipe": I hate to rain on your would-be parade, but "pipe" in French means pipe in the tobacco sense but not pipe in the plumbing sense (tuyau). Pipe does also however have a slang sense, with the result that "Ceci est une pipe" would mean either "this is a [smoking] pipe" or else "this is a blowjob."

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Marjorie Taylor Greene said, "6 “billion” have crossed the border in the Biden years." Since deleted, but I bet some of her "fans," having never mastered their numbers past the 3 times table in school, believed her. Scary!

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Ooops, posted on Pat's page. Repeat here.

Too late to participate live, crazy day, but just FYI Drew Carey is not a MAGA guy, of course, but he has confessed to being a Libertarian a la Reagan and such: "Politics can be divisive but Carey hasn’t shied away from it. The comedian and Price Is Right host describes himself as a libertarian. He advocates for limited government. When it comes to party affiliation, Carey has supported the Libertarian Party, even backing its 2016 presidential candidate Gary Johnson. He also donated to Libertarian 2008 presidential candidate Ron Paul’s campaign."

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For Week 7's arty party, I submitted the minimalistic "Large black and red graffiti on the Guggenheim's wall in NYC simply reading, "JPMorgan Chase--Sargasso." Hoping the judges were fans of the allusive Banksy and loved plays on words. I have learned now to be much more descriptive.

My senior year in college, out of curiosity, I took a seminar meant for the art majors called Contemporary Art In Process. I experience what was titled, "A Sound Sculpture- that was a small room in which one single musical note was constantly playing. The reviews we had to write were such fun.

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I'm getting another letter in the Post. Probably tomorrow's Free for All. The Empress should appreciate it as it is a grammar comment. My mother taught English in a high school for a couple of years and she would never have let me write a sentence like the one about which I complain.

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While salving over last week's "Pokes" assignment, every joke I could think of was at least 50 years old. Made me ask, does anybody tell new jokes these days? Sure, there are a lot of comedians that have good one-liners or observational humor, but hard to find the longer punch line set-up jokes (like the "roo-roo" joke) that I grew up with.

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For those who shake their heads in disbelief at someone willing to pay $69mm for a Non-Fungible Token (NFT) collection of pixels or a purely digital collage, you may not be aware of the next stage in modern art: nothing. Two years ago, an unknown buyer paid $18,350 for an invisible sculpture by Italian artist Salvatore Garau called, "Io Sono" ("I am"). The artist described the sculpture as a “density of thoughts,” observing that in quantum physics even empty space is “full of energy.” Garau graciously provided a certificate of authenticity to the purchaser. No doubt the exhibit also featured 4'33," a work by American composer, John Cage, in which the musicians do nothing aside from standing around (or maybe sitting, in one variation) for 4'33."

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"Dogs in my style?" The jokes write themselves. Fortunately, because ChatGPT completely missed it.

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Congratulations to the first First Offender we've had in a couple of weeks: Seth Christenfeld, a New York theater person who describes himself on Facebook as "a cranky Jew." Seth, does the cranky-Jewishness come from having "Christ" in your name all the time?

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I used to dream about riding a bike when I was young- but it was hopeful fantasy as I was a failure at it. Running into the mailbox was my last attempt as a child. As an adult I used to dream about during an Axel (figure skating's hardest jump) or ice dancing with someone. Haven't skated for years and no longer dream about it and it would make me sad that the metal in my back makes skating hazardous or as the doctor said when I asked him if it was ok to go back to skating: "if you don't fall".

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